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StuBC

05-16-2007 11:07:13

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Great day to be thinking about tire fluids, lots of discussion. Here is my questions. I have a small farm, and a 60hp 4x4 tractor. The rears are loaded 16.9-30 or something. I have hay growing clay ground, so little or no till, and a 8 acre meadow, 1-2+m of peat over clay. This field was custom rototilled last fall by a neighbor (duals, 4x4), and now I am going to hand seed it (reed canary). Its still wet, but does dry. Question is should I get the fluid out of the tires, since my achilles tendon is the soft ground now. I want to be high floatation for the next few years until I get good meadow sod built up. Intuitively, I think I should drain the fluid but I would like to check with wetland guys.

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CBBC

05-18-2007 00:39:46

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Re: more on tire fluids in reply to StuBC, 05-16-2007 11:07:13

Hey Stu, where are you in BC? I'm always ammazed how far I can go in a peat / black field that has been sod or brush for a number of years. Then after working it a bit - look out, you can go straight down.

I was brushing hard hack in the middle of summer a couple years ago. Everthing was great. The brush was so tall I couldn't see out of the cab on my Massey 1085. I was actually backing through the 3 acre piece - no problem when all of a sudden the back went down, the brush cutter kept me from going in too far - burried the axels. Turns out there was a dugout for cattle from about 50 years ago - all over grown. Needles to say I met the neighbors that night.

Anyway, if you can get duals that would be great. I have a tendancy to like fluid or weight of some kind in my tires. I drained my smaller Massey 165 but it just can't pull as well as before - which is OK because we have bigger tractors for the heavier stuff now.

If it was me, I would leave it the way it is with fliud - but I now have an excavator to pull myself out. Maybe look for tire weights and duals.

Good luck, I don't even know if any body will read this thread - it's so far back.

Grant

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Mike (WA)

05-16-2007 13:09:22

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Re: more on tire fluids in reply to StuBC, 05-16-2007 11:07:13

I'd get rid of the fluid, for two reasons: You don't need the extra weight (not really doing much tillage), and you're gonna get stuck in that peat, especially if you try to get a cutting of hay before July. Dad farmed some ground like that once, and his saying was "You could mire a saddle-blanket in August" (meaning you'd get so stuck that you'd see a saddle blanket, but none of the horse underneath).

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dboll

05-16-2007 11:22:31

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Re: more on tire fluids in reply to StuBC, 05-16-2007 11:07:13

I don't know your soil but know peat is spongy. hay needs a firm seed bed, we pack it and when seeded you hardly leave a boot print on clay loam. We use the press drill then drag it then pack it to get good soil/seed contact. If it is that loose drag it or something to firm it up as for the fluid if you don't need take it out. You can always use cast weights or put it back in.

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